Roger A. Meyer is an amateur creative non-fiction, fiction and poetry writer. He writes regular letters to the editor to various news organizations. He has published professionally in the Journal of Psychology and Theology, East Tennessee Business Journal, Commerce Magazine, Community News, Insight, Innovative Leader, The Chattanooga Times, Chattanooga Times Free Press, Chattanooga Outlook, The CHRA Newsletter, CHIP CHATS, and Birds and Blooms. He also wrote for, edited and published Productivity Enhancement from 1997 through 2000 as well as writing many handouts, brochures, pamphlets and business manuals over his career.

He attended the University of Illinois, Cincinnati Bible Seminary, and has a BA in Psychology, Bible and History from Milligan College, TN. After graduate study at Louisiana State University, Roger received both a MA and Ph.D. in Psychology. He Interned in Clinical Psychology at the Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, TX. He studied at UTC for additional graduate credits. He has hundreds of continuing education hours in psychology, consulting and religion.

Roger was born and raised in rural central Illinois near New Salem and Springfield, the Land of Lincoln. After college, he enlisted in the Navy and went to Aviation Officers Candidate School and then Flight training. Finding he lacked the coordination for precision flying, he became a weapons safety and then maintenance officer. After graduate school and his internship, he lived in the mountains of Western North Carolina. He moved from there to Chattanooga where he has remained since, working first as a psychologist and then as a management consultant.

Besides writing, he works part-time at his company Brainerd Consulting Services, is involved in and/or is a board member of several civic or charitable organizations and serves his church, New Hope Presbyterian, in several capacities. He is active in the Chattanooga Woodcarvers Club, does woodworking and turning, reads voraciously. Roger enjoys the outdoors as a hiker, kayaker, canoeist, gardener and birdwatcher. He is married to Lynn, a fourth grade public school teacher and has two adult children, a daughter-in-law and a grandson.

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